Dell, which still generates a slight majority of its revenue from PCs, isn’t really in the PC business anymore. So says founder and CEO Michael Dell, who spent a majority of his time at a conference hosted by Fortune today speaking about corporate servers, storage, networking, security, and IT services — anything, basically, but the PC business. “In the last five years, we really made a concerted shift to end-to-end IT services,” Dell said. He calls it the “new Dell,” a shift away from the PC business as the technology industry embraces the notion of the post-PC era. Dell said his company spends a majority of its research and development budget — not to mention billions of dollars in acquisitions — transforming the company. Read the full story at CNET.
About Shelly Palmer
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with AI strategy, implementation and governance, as well as technology, media and marketing. Named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology, he is a bestselling author, covers tech and business for Fox 5’s Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN, and writes the popular daily business blog Think About This. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.